The ruling class is seizing on the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers to criminalize the movement for Palestine and the Left. We must denounce these reactionary attacks but also be clear that individual violence sets us back and is no substitute for mass, collective action.

James Dennis Hoff
May 26, 2025

"Although it seems highly likely, even to the State Department, that Rodriguez acted entirely alone and on his own initiative, this hasn’t stopped the mainstream media, the Trump administration, or the Israeli government from attempting to use the shooting to silence its critics, sanctify and romanticize the lives of the victims (a privilege denied to the more than 60,000 people murdered by Israel in Gaza), and to actively propagate the lie that the movement for Palestine is a violent and antisemitic threat to domestic peace. "

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Same old playbook.

    Someone with a right wing manifesto, who attends right wing rallies, and espouses right wing points all over social media, and police records of doing similar things in the past is an isolated, troubled, lone wolf, completely out of character, who Obama should have helped.

    But someone with one left wing comment somewhere is obviously part of a multinational deep state organization that has been planning this for 30 years and was instructed and trained by Obama personally.